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12 August 2005
Mauritania
coup: condemnations all round, but junta stays in power
11 May 2005
Violence
accompanies sham election in Togo election
14 January 2005
Report
reveals the catastrophe in Sierra Leone and Liberia
9 November 2004
Ivory
Coast: protests erupt vs. French military strikes
14 August 2004
Ivory
Coast: Two years of French and United Nations occupation
18 March 2004
Zimbabwe
government arrests coup plotters
6 February 2004
Instability
threatens Guinea after presidential election
13 November 2003
Liberia:
US puts a bounty on Charles Taylor's head
29 October 2003
Police
murder French journalist in Ivory Coast
1 October 2003
Liberia
faced with continuing instability as UN agrees 15,000 troops
27 September 2003
US
and UN give tacit backing to Guinea Bissau coup
18 August 2003
US
force enters Liberia as former president goes into exile
7 August 2003
West
African military force enters Liberia
29 July 2003
US,
Europe intervene to protect oil interests West Africa: Coup aborted
in São Tomé and Principe
21 July 2003
Liberian
war restarts
7 July 2003
Bush
administration divided over intervention in Liberia
16 June 2003
US
marines sent to Liberia
9 May 2003
America
blocks UN operation in Ivory Coast conflict
12 February 2003
UN
and US back French intervention in Ivory Coast
7 January 2003
France
goes on the offensive in Ivory Coast
17 December 2002
France
deploys 1,700 troops in Ivory Coast
1 November 2002
Ivory
Coast: Talks to pave way for West African troops
5 October 2002
US
and French troops help force Côte D'Ivoire cease-fire
2 October 2002
Senegal
ferry disaster kills close to a thousand passengers
6 September 2002
WSWS
interviewed by US radio on dash for African oil
20 August 2002
Threat
of Middle East war spurs grab for West African oil
10 June 2002
Bono
and O'Neill's African tour: low farce against a backdrop of human
tragedy
28 May 2002
Britain's
favoured candidate wins Sierra Leone elections
23 May 2002
Pro-US
military strongman elected president in Mali
16 February 2002
Blair's
neocolonialist vision for Africa
17 November 2001
Western
powers consider further sanctions against Liberia
12 May 2001
One
hundred and thirty people die in Ghana football disaster
4 May 2001
War
in Sierra Leone and Guinea spreads to Liberia
3 February 2001
Africa:
Refugee crisis in Guinea produces a humanitarian disaster
4 January 2001
Conservative
candidate elected in Ghana: President Jerry Rawlings to step
down
15 December 2000
Côte
d'Ivoire: President Gbagbo stokes up ethnic conflict
7 November 2000
Britain
steps up presence in Sierra Leone as UN Force crumbles
28 October 2000
General
Guei ousted in Côte d'Ivoire clashes
22 September 2000
Threat
of civil war and French intervention in Côte d'Ivoire
11 September 2000
British
Paratroops kill at least 17 in Sierra Leone hostage shoot-out
31 August 2000
Seizure
of 11 British troops in Sierra Leone provokes demands for withdrawal
25 August 2000
Journalists
face spying charges in Liberia
21 August 2000
Chad-Cameroon
oil pipeline
gets the go-ahead
16 August 2000
US
reasserts its interests in Africa, sending troops to Nigeria
22 July 2000
British-backed
forces in Sierra Leone accused of attacks on civilians
26 June 2000
Carve-up
of diamond and mineral rights exposed, as Britain continues recolonisation
of Sierra Leone
17 June 2000
Côte
d'Ivoire coup leader seeks to consolidate power
1 June 2000
Channel
4 television highlights censorship of Britain's role in Sierra
Leone
27 May 2000
Britain
outlines its colonialist ambitions in Sierra Leone
20 May 2000
Britain's
military intervention in Sierra Leone part of a new "Scramble
for Africa"
12 May 2000
Britain
steps up military intervention in Sierra Leone
9 May 2000
Sierra
Leone: Britain sends crack troops as hostage crisis worsens
5 April 2000
Democratic
Party leader assumes office as president of Senegal
30 December 1999
Christmas
Eve coup in Côte D'Ivoire
23 December 1999
Former
IMF deputy to stand in Côte d'Ivoire presidential elections
30 October 1999
Ghana's
Ashanti Goldfields
going for a song
22 October 1999
Côte
d'Ivoire's economy dependent on child labour
27 September 1999
Liberia,
Sierra Leone and Guinea--no peace for the masses
31 July 1999
The
Sierra Leone peace deal
22 June 1999
President
Taylor cracks down in Liberia
9 June 1999
Sierra
Leone peace talks expose Blair's "ethical" foreign
policy
2 June 1999
Student
protests erupt in Côte d'Ivoire
19 May 1999
New
military coup in Guinea-Bissau leaves one hundred dead
27 April 1999
Guinea-Bissau
president to be put on trial
4 March 1999
Observations
of Ghana: A cruel juxtaposition of wealth and poverty
13 February 1999
Britain:
Inquiry attacks Blair government over "arms-to-Africa"
scandal
16 January 1999
Fresh
fighting in Sierra Leone capital intensifies crisis in West Africa
11 September 1998
On
the role of imperialism in Africa
14 May 1998
British
Labour government accused of
helping organise counter-coup in Sierra Leone
21 February 1998
Nigerian
military topples Sierra Leone junta |
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